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Comfort Factor (Score:1)
You are improving your manager's manager's manager's comfort factor.
By learning how to use Excel, you are improving the turn around time on your manager's manager's manager's comfort factor in preparation for the next planned maintenance downtime.
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Re:Comfort Factor (Score:2)
Thank you. That does actually explain it in more measurable terms. :)
Finally solved the problem, btw. (The journal entry was mostly drafted toward the end stages of figuring it out.)
J. David works really hard, has a passion for writing good software, and knows many of the world's best Perl programmers
Re:Comfort Factor (Score:1)
You're welcome. I've run into things like this before involving higher level management and more often than not it will come down to making them feel better.
Congratulations. So now you should be ready to start coding up a Perl solution so that it doesn't take umpteen hours everytime you have a 4 hour window of downtime for scheduled maintenance. :)
Re:Comfort Factor (Score:2)
Actually that's what I did last week for the spreadsheets they told me about ahead of time. And for this part, I already have a Perl solution to spit out the raw data. I just need to cut and paste it into the existing spreadsheet template.
J. David works really hard, has a passion for writing good software, and knows many of the world's best Perl programmers